Issue Date: 10/1/07
Women's golf in full swing
Palomar complies with Title IX, adds first women's golf team
For the first time in Palomar College history, women are teeing off for the Comets on the newly added women's golf team.
Ex-Palomar softball head coach Mark Eldridge will coach the new golf team and he said he hopes to make his team a state championship contender.
With the addition of women's golf to Palomar athletics, the college remains in its quest to adhere to the requirements of Title IX. Title IX seeks to provide equal opportunities to women throughout community college athletics, meaning for every men's team there should be an equal amount of women's team.
"This gives females an opportunity to participate in college sport," Eldridge said in an October 2006 issue of The Telescope. "There are a lot of four-year opportunities to female golfers, it's growing nationwide."
Eldridge, who formerly coached the softball team for 28 years, lead the Comets to three state championships and six-second place finishes in state competition before he retired in May 2006.
Eldridge has recruited a team consisting of nine players so far, with one player who already worked with Eldridge.
"I have worked with coach Eldridge for the past 30 years," said Patti Waterman, a new member of the team and a long-time Palomar faculty member. "He is a wonderful person and he has done outstanding things for women's sports here at Palomar."
Eldridge said there is a huge difference in coaching golf compared to coaching softball.
"With golf, there are such small numbers and the whole dynamic is different," Eldridge said. "Softball is explosive and rowdy where as golf is the complete opposite."
However, Eldridge said there are similarities in both softball and golf in that you have to continuously bounce back from adversity. Along with Eldridge, Palomar men's golf coach Jonas Crawford and Jonathan Flemming guide Eldridge as assistant coaches.
"We are feeling things out right now being a brand new team," Crawford said. "I think we will do well in our conference."
Ex-Palomar softball head coach Mark Eldridge will coach the new golf team and he said he hopes to make his team a state championship contender.
With the addition of women's golf to Palomar athletics, the college remains in its quest to adhere to the requirements of Title IX. Title IX seeks to provide equal opportunities to women throughout community college athletics, meaning for every men's team there should be an equal amount of women's team.
"This gives females an opportunity to participate in college sport," Eldridge said in an October 2006 issue of The Telescope. "There are a lot of four-year opportunities to female golfers, it's growing nationwide."
Eldridge, who formerly coached the softball team for 28 years, lead the Comets to three state championships and six-second place finishes in state competition before he retired in May 2006.
Eldridge has recruited a team consisting of nine players so far, with one player who already worked with Eldridge.
"I have worked with coach Eldridge for the past 30 years," said Patti Waterman, a new member of the team and a long-time Palomar faculty member. "He is a wonderful person and he has done outstanding things for women's sports here at Palomar."
Eldridge said there is a huge difference in coaching golf compared to coaching softball.
"With golf, there are such small numbers and the whole dynamic is different," Eldridge said. "Softball is explosive and rowdy where as golf is the complete opposite."
However, Eldridge said there are similarities in both softball and golf in that you have to continuously bounce back from adversity. Along with Eldridge, Palomar men's golf coach Jonas Crawford and Jonathan Flemming guide Eldridge as assistant coaches.
"We are feeling things out right now being a brand new team," Crawford said. "I think we will do well in our conference."
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